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We describe four solid-organ transplant recipients with donor-derived West Nile virus (WNV) infection (encephalitis 3, asymptomatic 1) from a common donor residing in a region of increased WNV activity. All four transplant recipients had molecular ev...

Revised June 15,2015 : No antiviral or adjunctive therapies are approved or recommended for the treatment of West Nile virus (WNV) disease; clinical management is supportive. There are numerous case reports and case series regarding the use of variou...

We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset. Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the P...